by leerozelle | Aug 24, 2023 | horror short stories, werewolf story
Jonathan Janz’ “The Kiss of Divna Antonov” delves into tenure track terrors as nerdy professor Clark considers suicide. But a stunning woman, a steamer massacre, werewolf sex, and his colleagues getting their genitals ripped off help “Clarky” get his wolf...
by leerozelle | Aug 20, 2023 | horror short stories
Todd Keisling’s “Saving Granny from the Devil” is a satanic-coming-of-age story rich with talking devil dogs, belligerent bullies, animated toy monkeys, and a lot of eldercare guilt. When Granny starts going downhill, Toddy makes a deal with Lucifer…and gets...
by leerozelle | Aug 16, 2023 | horror short stories, science fiction, speculative fiction
Octavia E. Butler’s novelette “Bloodchild” twists the mind and keeps twisting. Space colonizers get colonized in this gory tale about parasites, male rape, talking egg-infesting centipede-scorpion creatures, and sacrifice. Incomparable! A...
by leerozelle | Aug 12, 2023 | horror short stories, southern fiction
THE STORY: Robert McCammon’s “Nightcrawlers” uses gothic conventions like materialization to examine the Vietnam experience. The customers at Big Bob’s Diner will never truly understand Price because they only experience war as media...
by leerozelle | Aug 8, 2023 | horror short stories
Edgar Allan Poe’s “William Wilson” etches the rudiments of psychoanalysis sixty years before Freud’s THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS. A schoolboy’s doppelganger goads him, shadows him, and torments him. Memories of the womb in a Lacanian nightmare make this uncanny tale...
by leerozelle | Aug 3, 2023 | horror short stories, weird fiction, werewolf story
Bruce Memblatt’s “Interuptis” follows neurotic would-be werewolf Ethan around Central Park until wife Nadine commits him to Bellevue. After shock therapy, Ethan seems over his wolfishness, but a sexy rendezvous puts Ethan back into beast mode. WOLFEN meets Woody...
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